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When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder. ↗

— Hermann Maier

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I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup. ↗

— Hermann Maier

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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. ↗

— Maimonides

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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ↗

— John Major

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